In autumn, the TV Center channel launched a new consumer talk show, Natural Selection. One of the program’s hosts is a famous showman, journalist Otar Kushanashvili. Four times a week, Otar, along with co-host Zinaida Rudenko, teaches viewers how to choose products, appliances, household chemicals, etc. I wonder what Otar himself prefer? And does shopping go to the store?
About "Natural Selection"
This is the first time I am conducting a program of this kind. This is despite the fact that at home they jokingly call me "the defender of the oppressed." But hitherto I was in demand as, to put it mildly, an intellectual clown, a gangster, a catastrophe ironist (one of my daughters awarded me this title). This is entirely the merit of the producers - they discerned a suitable guy in me, scanned me, "sorted out the taste of apples." Of course, it’s hard for me, difficulties are darkness, but this is the work that I adore. And what difficulties can scare you if you love your job? I would rather speak of fear here. Fear does not meet the expectations of good people who believe in me and me. But this fear does not bother me, but inspires, mobilizes and disciplines.
Photo: TV Center Press Service
About colleague Zinaida Rudenko
Since December 5, a talk show with Otar has been led by food expert Zinaida Rudenko.
Zinaida Rudenko is an authentic find for the program: she looks like an aonid, knows how and what to say, the record holder for adaptation (the debut was stunning!), Moderately sentimental, not afraid of the opposite phase. And she is a bunch of energy, but energy, in contrast to me, controlled. Craftswoman to achieve the perfect tension. It works honestly, it gets very tired, but here she was lucky indescribably with me, an intellectual buffoon.
About your preferences and cooking
The paradox - let's call it the “Kushanashvili incident” - is that I, being a natural, one hundred percent, full-blooded Georgian, have never been a gourmet. Food for me is first an indicator of self-esteem, and after it is a pleasure. You see, I am the defendant for a huge number of people, and I must be not just in shape, but in excellent shape, excluding the neatly regular devouring of my favorite khachapuri and khinkali. It would not hurt you all to know that for the sake of Natural Selection, I lost 12 kilograms! Above all, this is also respect for the viewer, that same work ethic.
As for cooking. "I am a nightingale, and, apart from songs, there is no other use for me." I don’t know how to cook. But I am a very, very, very grateful consumer.
Photo: TV Center Press Service
About shopping
I can also go to the grocery store for my family. As Leonid Parfyonov would put it, “I'm not such a tremulous prince of the ether” (to avoid buying kefir). But going to the store is an art and a science at once, and I am impatient and overly sociable. The store, as you understand from the program, involves a certain concentration with concentration.
About vegetarianism and good nutrition
In my family of vegetarians I do not observe, but I observe that everyone without exception wants to look good. So, all on the ointment!
About children
- The father of seven children, the most beautiful and intelligent children (still!), Whom I teach by my example the main thing: in matters of morality, it is not a shame to be a retrograde. I am very, very, very hard, but I am very, very, very happy - I am 46, I am just warming up.
To all my readers, good day. I am glad to welcome you in my review. I’ll tell you today about the TV show "Natural Selection", which goes on the channel "TVC".
When I first watched the program "Natural Selection", it reminded me a little of the program of the first channel called "Joint Purchase".
There is much in common between the programs, but there are also cardinal differences.
In the program "Natural Selection" there is a discussion of consumer goods. We discuss those goods that we can really see and buy on the shelves of our stores. The Natural Selection program during its investigation finds out which of the manufacturers is honest and who is deceiving us consumers.
On the program "Natural Selection", manufacturers must personally be responsible for the quality of their goods in front of the entire studio. After a careful analysis of the selected product, the manufacturer will either become the one who produces quality products or tarnishes his reputation publicly throughout the country.
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Airtime: Monday through Thursday at 16:50.
The TV project “Launched in the Fall of 2016” Natural selection”Highlights many pressing issues. For example, which product can you spend money on, and which one should be deleted from the shopping list? How can consumers properly use their rights and effectively defend them? The audience hears the answers from the producers of goods directly in the talk show studio “ Natural selection».
In the spotlight " Natural selection"- consumer goods, including food, shoes and clothes, household chemicals and appliances, children's and sports things. All this is subjected to laboratory quality control four times a week, while viewers learn to navigate the products offered by manufacturers.
Guests of the studio are people affected by the use of products, manufacturers of goods themselves, doctors, nutritionists, lawyers, stars of show business, sports, various experts. In particular, the specialists of Roskontrol during the show conduct a complete analysis of a particular product and provide the necessary materials.
The program is divided into various sections: laboratory examination and viewing, “Uninvited GOST”, which describes the standard requirements, “E-expert” (on the benefits and harms of additives E), “Shelf life” (on the rules for storage and use of goods), “Price questions ”(about the price of the goods),“ Check for lice ”,“ I have the right ”, etc.
At the end of releases, bona fide manufacturers are identified, who are awarded quality marks based on the results of examinations. If the product is rejected, then its manufacturers are called to account.
Talk show hosts Alexander Borisov - Co-chairman of the Union of consumers of "Roskontrol" and Otar Kushanashvili - A well-known journalist, columnist and showman, for whom, despite his media, such a program was the first in practice.
Otar Kushanashvili: This is really the first time I am conducting a program of this kind. This is despite the fact that at home they jokingly call me "the defender of the oppressed." But hitherto I was in demand as, to put it mildly, an intellectual clown, a gangster, a catastrophe ironist (one of my daughters awarded me this title). This is entirely the merit of the producers - they discerned in me a suitable guy ...
According to Alexandra Borisova since 2013 "Roskontrol" checks the quality and safety of goods, because specialists of the department know all the problems very well.
Borisov: Moreover, we are consolidating information and opinions from all sides: from experts, manufacturers and buyers. But on the platform of the show, they first meet in reality face to face. And, believe me, this is a very interesting story.
Otar Kushanashvili When asked why Russians need such a show, he answered: “People should live a decent life, a quality and safe life. That's what this program is about, and I'm proud to be related to it. I also want to live a safe and quality life. "
Since December 5, 2016, as a co-host, Otar began working Zinaida Rudenko - A technologist by education and a specialist in a healthy lifestyle, an athlete and an online trainer.
Well versed in the intricacies of what exactly makes people's lives healthy and comfortable, Zinaida graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Low-Temperature and Food Technologies, having studied there, specializing in general and refrigeration food technology. She began working in profile since 1997, holding the position of chief technologist at large meat processing enterprises and dairy production. In parallel with the main work, Zinaida began to seriously engage in sports, becoming in 2011 a member of the Russian Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness.
By the way, in the studio " Natural selectionRudenko previously appeared as an invited guest.
Zinaida Rudenko: While still an expert technologist in the show, I listened very carefully to what was happening in the studio, as others were talking about. She listened to the results of the laboratory examination and "shook her mustache." For example, now I’m buying exactly the cheese that went through Natural Selection. And the issue of shrimp even plunged me, a food technologist with 20 years of experience, which is hard to surprise with something, just in shock! I completely stopped buying shrimp and stopped only on chicken breasts, turkey and fish. I decided that it would be safer also because my diet was related to the diet of my eight-year-old daughter.
According to Otar, Zinaida is just a godsend for " Natural selection».
Otar Kushanashvili: Zinaida looks like an aonid, knows how and what to say, the record holder for adaptation is moderately sentimental, not afraid of the opposite phase. She is also a bunch of energy. But energy, in contrast to me, is controlled. Craftswoman to achieve the perfect tension. It works honestly, it gets very tired. However, here she was lucky unspeakably: with me, an intellectual buffoon.
About the former co-host - Alexandra Borisova, who began to conduct the show with Otar, the journalist assured the audience of the following: the specialist will not leave the program and will continue to give his professional advice.
To make it easier for you to go shopping in search of quality food, the Natural Selection program gives you some tips on how and what to buy.
Salted salmon in vacuum packaging
* How to determine that it is a salmon, and not painted cod? If you want to avoid cheating, buy a whole piece of fish so that its skin can be seen, not sliced \u200b\u200bin slices. Another characteristic feature of salmon - it shimmers, as if on it gasoline stains. On painted white fish this will not happen.
* Look at the packaging - it must be airtight, nothing should leak out of it. Salmon is a fatty fish, therefore inside the package it is possible to separate fat, it should be orange. And this should not be afraid. But there should be no liquid in the package - this is a sign of either the use of phosphates to increase the water content in the fish, or a sign of spoilage.
* Click on a piece of salmon - a dent from the finger should slowly and partially straighten out. If this does not happen at all - this is a sign of stale or very wet fish. Salmon should be resilient, but not too much.
Olive mayonnaise
* Is there olive oil in olive mayonnaise? According to the technical regulations for oil and fat products, even if the manufacturer adds at least a little olive oil, for example, only 1-2%, he may already call mayonnaise olive. And this is absolutely legal!
* Read the composition. If you see that olive oil is located there further than third place, this mayonnaise is far from olive.
* If you follow your diet and figure, but love mayonnaise, you can use a little trick: for New Year's salads, mix mayonnaise with natural yogurt in a ratio of 50/50. The taste will remain almost the same, and calories will be much less.
Red salmon caviar
* If you want to eat fresh caviar of the first grade (this is the best grade of caviar), check the place of production. The ideal option is when caviar is made in the Far East, that is, next to the sea.
* Different varieties of caviar can be distinguished by eye. The first grade caviar is neat, without bursting balls, in a transparent brine, because it is prepared from fresh or chilled fish. Burnt balls and white particles and films are allowed in the eggs of the second grade - the remains of the pails, and the brine itself may be cloudy (this product is prepared from frozen raw materials). By the way, such caviar also has a different taste - it is permissible for it to be bitter.
* So that the quality of caviar does not upset you during the New Year's feast, buy caviar in glass jars. Usually caviar in banks is of the first grade, it is no coincidence that it is more expensive. In addition, this way you can carefully examine it even in the store.
* To check the quality of caviar, you need to pour a few eggs with hot water. There is a lot of protein in real caviar, so the balls will become dense, white due to temperature - that is, they will simply boil, and the water itself will become cloudy. Artificial caviar is made of gelatin. These balls do not completely dissolve in water, but an oily colored film of oil with dyes forms on the surface. The water itself will be transparent.
* Caviar of different salmon fish is different. Chum salmon caviar - the largest, up to 7 mm, orange; pink salmon caviar - smaller, orange-red; Sockeye salmon caviar is the smallest, about 3 mm, bright red and always bitter.
Chocolate candies with a waffle layer
* The following stop words in the product should warn you against buying waffle chocolates: vegetable fat, palm oil, cocoa butter substitute or equivalent, rapeseed oil, shea butter, soy protein or soy flour. If you see only vegetable fats in the composition, then in these sweets there is neither natural chocolate nor milk filling.
* Synthetic dyes, the use of which must be accompanied by a mandatory warning inscription on the package - "The product contains dyes that may adversely affect the activity and attention of children." There are only six of them: E102 - tartrazine, E104 - yellow quinoline, E110 - "sunny sunset", E122 - azorubine, E129 - charming red, E124 - ponso.
